Author Topic: R.I.P. PBA - You Have Become A Complete Joke (Read 10168 times)

Necromancer · « **on:** December 03, 2008, 04:48:12 AM »

Ok, I have had about enough of the PBA this season. It is clearly going completely the wrong way in everyway. Before flaming me and saying FIGJAM and whatever or 'stop watching then' or 'stfu moron' or 'you suck', read on because I know everyone with any type of brain or history of bowling has the same feelings.

Where to begin? So many complaints and BS!!!

1. Ok Denny dropped them and they got Lumber Liquidators to sponsor them. (this is the least of their problems LOL)

2. They grant Jason Belmonte a 2 tournament exemption from the Commissioner. Just ask the other bowlers on tour and in TQR's how they feel to understand this issue. International reasons my azz!

3. Ultimate Scoring championship. Total disaster. Nothing was ultimate on the telecast and only set back bowling overall in the public eye. Nice going PBA planners!

4. Not only that, they release the results on PBA.com and then expect people to watch the following Sunday a taped show where every interested bowling fan already knows what happens?

5. Exempt Tour

6. Stupid 5 Christmas Tree Oil Patterns that are all derivatives of the Christmas Tree Pattern

7. Stupid fines for balking!

and now (drum-roll) as it only gets worse!!>......

8. Robert Mushtare, the self-proclaimed king of 900 series! He gets a free ride to this week's tournament and embarrasses himself and the PBA with a dazzling 179 average and only 1 200 game! For someone that bowls 900's in his sleep, he can only manage 1 on the Tour's EASIEST PATTERN. Yeah I SAID EASY because it is nothing more than a harder THS. And Easy in that it isn't hard to bowl 200. Yet Mr. 900 can only bowl 1 200 game out of 7 tries.

157 2
183 3
169 4
182 5
148 6
194 7
220
Total
1253

Nice going PBA! Good to hype him up. It is like hyping up Lebron from HS only to see he can't even dunk on an NBA rim.

PBA you are running out of lives. Let's only hope you can somehow show a legit Plastic Ball Tournament later this season like you all say you are.

My name is Necromancer and that's my story and I'm sticking to it!

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J_w73 · « **Reply #46 on:** December 05, 2008, 12:49:03 PM »

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idk if this has been said cuzi didnt read the whole thread but.....

i can see why walter ray is doing so well this year because i can play up 5 or there abouts and rip racks on scorpion, shark and chameleon all with the same ball (blue vibe). i may have to adjust speed or tilt or surface but the shot is always up around 5 for me at least.
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I agree.. I only averaged 185 in my PBA league.. (1st one and the first 4 weeks I was playing the patterns like bowl.com says to play them)..I dont' know if it was the lanes or the machine but the patterns played nothing like they were supposed to...
but I too just moved out and up the outside and shot some really good games. Just changed speed and hand release like you said. Seemed like that was the most consistant shot on every pattern.

nd300 · « **Reply #47 on:** December 05, 2008, 01:11:49 PM »

Another thing that I didn't see mentioned as to why the pros aren't on Saturday afternoons at 3:00 P.M. EST is the absolutely HUGE money made available to broadcast NCAA basketball and football games,to name a few.There's simply no way for the PBA to compete with those numbers,regardless of which companies are/were sponsoring them.
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MrNattyBoh · « **Reply #48 on:** December 05, 2008, 01:15:43 PM »

What needs to be done for the PBA to thrive is put them on espn on Tuesday evenings when no other sports are playing. I think you would see a huge ratings increase. Sundays are not for bowling, they are for football.
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Necromancer · « **Reply #49 on:** December 06, 2008, 10:07:15 PM »

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I think it is pretty amazing that after 113 years of the ABC/USBC (1895 start) the American public has no idea there are lanes conditions! Everyone knows about golf courses. Everyone knows about clay, asphalt, grass, and even the rare concrete tennis courts but in 113 years of organized bowling no one but us knows about lane conditions?

No one knows that lanes are synthetic now instead of wood? The USBC is run by a bunch of idiots! How come the PBA does not take out a full page ad in the USA Today about the Tour and the major tournaments like Golf and Tennis?
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LOL!!! I agree 100%. Something is clearly wrong. I have to explain to bowlers on my 'fun league' team about oil and they still don't get it. Every week it is the same THS pattern yet they always ask 'how is the oil?' I tell another casual bowler about guardian, wood, synthetics and they think I am making these things up.

YET! I can go up to any local moron and talk about tennis and they can say 'what you play on dem grass courts or the clay courts?' JESUS!!!!
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BrunsNick · « **Reply #50 on:** December 10, 2008, 04:56:25 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoEGYFzS0jA
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joeschmoe · « **Reply #51 on:** December 10, 2008, 05:19:02 PM »

^^^^^^Good call Nick...^^^^^^
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sdbowler · « **Reply #52 on:** December 10, 2008, 05:32:16 PM »

Very good call.
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